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If you are familiar with linux/unix, you will be very accustomed to the ability to kill (and start) processes from the command line. Linux gives you a very rich set of command line tools that simply don’t exist on Windows by default.

Enter the Command Line Process Viewer/Killer/Suspender utility from the Beyond Logic website. This is a simple command line utility that lets you perform a number of utilities including viewing a list of processes, killing processes, and even changing the priority of a process.

I would recommend a more elegant solution called Process Tamer by DonationCoder.com It does the same things but in a more user friendly way with a GUI. The software developer doesn’t charge for the software but does ask for a donation — which is justified, in my opinion.

I would instead recommend the built in “taskkill” command in Windows to kill a process to avoid any third party software. And if you need to print out a list of all of the current processes, you can use “tasklist”.